We are happy to announce that the Ryan Academy will be hosting a social entrepreneurship/social enterprise talk in association with South Dublin County Council as part of Innovation Dublin week which takes place in November. The event, is on in the county library in Tallaght at 4 pm on Wednesday the 17th of November.

After an introduction from yours truly, the speakers will be giving a short talk on each of their social enterprises being:

Killian Stokes - Founder and CEO of mygoodpoints.org one of the 2009 winners of the Vodafone Ireland Foundation World of Difference programme.

John Murphy - CEO of Speedpak and one of the winners of this years Arthur Guinness Fund Social Entrepreneurs Award.

Michael Kelly - Founder and CEO of GIY (Grow it Yourself) who is also a winner of this year Arthur Guinness award as well as a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland awardee and Ashoka Fellow.

This will be followed by a Q&A session with the panelists.

More information on this will appear on this blog as well as the Innovation Dublin website.